If you are reading this, you are likely in a lot of pain, terrified about what the future might hold, and whether you will ever be able to have a normal life…at least that’s how I felt.
My name is Olivia, and everything started for me on the 13th of February 2021, one day before Valentine’s day. I was 24, living in the UK, practising a job that I liked, with great friends, an amazing boyfriend at the time and loving life. Until, everything changed for me one morning.

The past week, in speaking to patients we have had over the years, I am reminded of something that I myself went through years ago early on in my health journey.

I had lost what I viewed as my healthy body from an early age, and it was then when I met my first very real health challenge that I began to understand the vast amount of grey that exists between the black and white of health and illness.

I was quite young and had once been very trusting of the professional, the doctors, the surgeons, the medical profession in general.